Practitioner Biographies
Directors of IAVMT
Tracy Starreveld, BA (hons), CTABRSM, VMTR
President
After completing her VMT training at Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts in 2006, Tracy returned to the US to undertake an internship, supervised by movement therapist William Freeman and senior VMT trainer Anne Brownell. As a VMT intern at an elementary school in Ripton, Vermont, she worked with students and teachers alike, both individuals and groups. On finishing her case studies, she wrote a thesis entitled Making Friends with Feelings through Song, and went on to qualify in 2009.
Tracy has been an active member of the VMT community: contributing performances, presentations and workshops at IAVMT conferences; and leading the team that organised the 2010 Annual Conference in the UK. She was appointed as a director in 2009 and as president in 2010, and has been overseeing the redesign of the IAVMT website.
Tracy is a classically trained pianist and qualified piano teacher, certified by the Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music. She also writes and performs her own creative material - exploring the boundaries between spoken word, theatre and song. Based in London, she is a co-founder of The Cauldron Club, a mixed-media theme-based performance night; has a VMT client practice; and is currently planning a series of one-day VMT workshops, each with a special focus.
Sebastiana Mikulova, VMTR
Vice President
Sebastiana started out studying languages at the Charles University in Prague. Her Masters in French and the teaching qualification she gained there allowed her to move to Norfolk in England and work in schools as a teacher. More recently she has been incorporating Voice Movement Therapy into her work as a support worker with children with emotional and behavioural difficulties. Currently she is studying towards a Diploma in Child Counselling using the Arts, at the Institute for Arts in Therapy and Education in London.
Sebastiana has enjoyed singing since she was a child. Exploring her voice became part of her spiritual journey. In 2005 she discovered Voice Movement Therapy, which she found brought together the missing pieces of her search for a holistic approach to voice and she undertook the VMT training on Martha’s Vineyard, USA, 2 years later. In 2010 she qualified and became a professional member of the IAVMT.
Since then she has been running workshops in the U.K. and Prague, Czech Republic and recently founded the Norfolk Voice Movement Therapy Centre in the U.K. with her colleague, Lilith Perkins. It is based in Norwich, where they both see their clients and run workshops. This year she became vice president of the IAVMT.
Her love of language also fuels her passion for song writing. She performs her songs as a solo artist, accompanying herself on accordion, or with other musicians. She has been a member of Klezmer, Circle Dance, and Gypsy bands as an instrumentalist and vocalist.
Visit www.voicealive.co.uk, www.norfolkvmt.co.uk or www.myspace.com/sebastianam for more information.
Simon Dryer, VMTR
Treasurer
Simon’s work is essentially therapeutic. Working gently with the voice and the body, going at the clients own pace, Simon helps people to integrate both into an expressive, creative whole, enabling them to ‘give voice’ to the things that need to be heard from within. He encourages the use of images, stories, myths and legends, enabling people to construct their own story through these in sounds and movements that can then be put into songs, pictures, texts or any medium that they are drawn towards. In his work, Simon gradually takes people through their own personal journey of self discovery, revealing themselves to themselves, giving them a voice and a safe place for them to play, to discover, to feel, and to be.
Lilith Perkins, BMus (hons), VMTR
Secretary
Lilith has always been passionate about singing, but she spent many years searching for the right form of expression and method of developing her voice. She left her home in Sweden in 2000, and after some years of travelling, she decided to follow her ambition to study music. After gaining a first class BMus (hons) degree in Music at City University in London, Lilith continued to pursue voice studies at Goldsmith’s University and through various workshops. Her interest in exploring how the singing voice is affected by emotional and psychological circumstances eventually led her to enrol on the Foundation Training in Voice Movement Therapy, held at Martha’s Vineyard in 2005. After completing the training, Lilith qualified as a professional Voice Movement Therapy practitioner in 2009.
In 2010 Lilith co-founded the Norfolk Voice Movement Therapy Centre with her colleague Sebastiana Mikulova. The centre is based in Norwich, where Lilith currently offers individual and group VMT sessions. For more information, please visit www.norfolkvmt.co.uk. She also works to support music students at Access to Music, as well as being involved with the UK mental health charity Mind. Lilith writes and regularly performs her own songs accompanied by harmonium, both as a solo artist and with her band Lilith and the Lilac Chasers.
Professional Members
Anne Brownell, MA, LMHC, VMTR
Anne is director of the Norma G. Canner Foundation for Voice Movement Therapy and teaches and supervises on the Foundation Training in Voice Movement Therapy: The Voice Unchained. After studying and working in the Expressive Therapies with pioneer dance therapist Norma Canner and noted clinician and author Penny Lewis, Anne’s search for the vocal component for a movement oriented therapy led her to be the first American to train in VMT with founder Paul Newham in London; to teach and supervise with him on trainings in both England and America; and to establish her own training program, first in the United States, with Christine Isherwood, VMTR (4 trainings), and then in South Africa with Hennie Pienaar, VMTR, where they recently completed their first program.
Anne has also acted as a VMT consultant for schools, working with children experiencing developmental and language delays; taught the first for-credit graduate course in VMT, for Castleton College, Vermont; conducted a private practice and supervision; and presented at conferences here and abroad. Prior experience includes working in Early Intervention programs, supervising graduate students in Dance Therapy on the therapeutic use of the voice, and conducting music and movement groups for previously homeless and substance abused people with HIV and AIDS. Anne has served as scriptwriter and executive producer on several films on the Expressive Therapies, most notably A Time to Dance: The Life and Work of Norma Canner and Going to the Source: A Study of Group Process in the Natural World. Her CD, A Journey in Song, illustrates a range of possibilities inherent in a single human voice, and she delights in performing songs in different genres and sounds.
Visit www.vmtusa.com for more information.
Eva Campbell-Haidl, VMTR
Eva Campbell-Haidl was born in Austria. She is an accomplished singer, songwriter and musician and has studied Jazz at the University of Performing Arts in Graz, Austria as well as at the Guildhall School for Music and Drama in London. Eva's search for authenticity as a human being, as a singer and a voice teacher, combined with her realisation of the interrelatedness of the voice and the nature of being human, led her to take the VMT training in America in 2004.
In her practice year she worked with patients at the Jules Thorn Mental Health Day Care Centre in London and became a certified VMT practitioner in March 2007. A year later, Eva was invited to accompany Christine Isherwood and Anne Brownell as an apprentice teacher on the VMT training on Martha’s Vineyard and served three years as a director for the IAVMT.
In her private practice as a voice teacher and as someone who encourages people to express themselves through their voice, Eva has been working with beginners and professional singers of all ages, for over 15 years. Over the last 6 years she has focused extensively on leading group workshops in VMT, Gospel and World Music in Austria, Germany and Italy and has recently taught at the Drama Department of the Vienna Music University - the "Max Reinhardt Seminar".
Visit Eva's Website, www.voicemovement.at for more information.
Kelly Close, VMTR, MA
Kelly Close received her Bachelor of Music Education in Studio Voice from Montana State University, her Master of Arts in Vocal Pedagogy from The Ohio State University and her VMTR in 2007, having completed the foundation training in 2005.
As a singer, Kelly has performed as a soloist and ensemble member in classical, jazz, rock, and musical theater genres. She sang with the Bozeman Symphony and Intermountain Opera Company as a soloist for 13 years and wrote, co-produced, and performed a multi-arts production, "In the Body of the Beast." In fulfilling part of the training requirements for VMT certificatioin, Kelly wrote, produced and performed her show, "Can of Worms." Currently, Kelly is in the process of developing a new show derived from her personal VMT exploration. In addition, she is filming, writing, scoring and producing several video projects.
As a teacher, Kelly had a thriving music studio in Montana from 1993 – 2008. During this time, she wrote, directed, produced and performed in, "Recital Beezarro," an alternative performance art piece for her 30 students. From 2001-03, Kelly attended graduate school at The Ohio State University where she taught World Music, Applied Voice, and Vocal Pedagogy. Currently, Kelly is teaching individual & group lessons in voice, music theory fundamentals, managing stage fright, increasing sensory awareness for the tonally challenged, VMT. She is also co-facilitating expressive arts workshops with her partner artist/educator, David Cowan, at their Earthbones Expressive Arts Studios outside of Ann Arbor, Michigan. Her objective is to bring a more holistic, non-judgemental, versatile, and creative approach to the study of voice which encompasses the exploration of physical, emotional, and psychological processes.
Deborah Crane, VMTR, MA
Deborah Crane has been doing voicework for 15 years. In addition to completing the training course in Voice Movement Therapy in 1999, she has studied with Richard Armstrong, of the Roy Hart Theatre and Leigh Smiley, who is a recognized teacher of the Kristin Linklater Method.
Deborah has a Master's Degree in Theatre from Villanova University.
Find more information from Deborah's website, www.creativevoicework.com
Corinne de Langavant, VMTR
Corinne de Langavant a.k.a. Coco the clown, is a professional skater, performance artist, writer, musician, producer and teacher. Though she has been working most recently on the treatment of Autism using VMT, she extends her services to people from all walks of life, including aspiring singers and performers, working out of her home studio in Oak Bluffs, and at the YMCA of Martha’s Vineyard, MA. She travels regularly to work with one of the earliest state funded residential programs in Connecticut for families living with autism.
Her main focus being the creation of innovative, educational programs to be presented in conference settings, schools and organizations such as the YMCA, she is currently developing a cable T.V. show series entitled: "Coco and The Kids" wherein she sets forth basic VMT practices and principles, addressing bullying, how to manage feelings and autism.
On May 2nd, 2011 Corinne will speaking at The 30th Annual YAI (Young Adult Institute) International Conference for Special Needs, based on the findings set forth in her thesis "The Treatment of Autism using VMT". She hopes to inspire the scientific community to do impact studies to qualify alternative interventions and viable treatment modalities. Towards that end, she has developed a VMT specific progress evaluation system which she hopes will be put to the test by other practitioners to provide useful, empirical data.
Her background includes: A degree in Community Recreational Leadership Training from Dawson College, Montreal, Quebec; graduate of Lycee College Marie de France, head figure skating pro for the Universite de Montreal and McGill University from’79 to ’92 and founding director of the Montreal Ice Theatre, The Alternative Figure Skating School for adults, M.V. Ice and Street Theatre, Friday Night Live, singer-songwriter’s concerts, workshops and open mics for the Island community.
To view Corinne’s T.V. works progress, (made possible in part by a grant from the Martha’s Vineyard Local Cultural Council and the Mass. Cultural Council, a state agency), go to: www.mvtv.org, Video on demand and type: "Coco" in the subject box.
For more information, please visit
Carol Grimes, VMTR, Hon LRSL
Musician, writer and composer. Associate of Sidney De Haan Research Centre for Arts and Health, Canterbury Christchurch University.
I was a busker... a long time ago! I discovered one day, outside a Pub beside the sea, that I could sing and, lucky me, have managed to sing for my supper for most of my life.
Currently I perform my own curious songs and poems, as well as the songs I love to sing with the musicians I have had the phenomenal pleasure to work with over the years. I also sing with Something Secret, The UK Funk, All Stars, The Shout and anything that comes along that might tickle my imagination, stir my heart and challenge my bones.
I have recorded extensively, here in the U.K. America, Germany, The Hebrides, Poland and Sweden.
In the early eighties I began working with a group of young people in Poplar, near where I lived in the east end of London and once I had worked out what it is I do and have done in order to convey some of that to others. I found a stimulating extension to my life: How does the voice work and how to express it fully? A fascinating and on-going exploration. I have come to love this work, and combine it very happily with the rest of my living as a performing singer.
In 2004 after a meeting with Nina Temple who had been diagnosed with Parkinson's Disease and had always wanted to sing, we founded "Sing For Joy", a community choir for people with Parkinson’s Disease, Multiple Sclerosis and other conditions.
So here I am in the 21st Century. I have two children, much music still to make and listen to, and hopefully many more adventures around the corner. I wish for Peace on Earth, an end to destruction and pollution and to the mindless cruelty of Wars in the name of religion, greed and ignorant prejudice.
Finding my voice has given me my life.
For more information, visit
Carol Grimes at Canterbury University
www.vortexjazz.co.uk/videos/carol-grimes.html
Joan Harris, VMTR
Joan was born in 1947 in Arkansas, USA. She graduated from Arizona State University in 1969 with a BA in English. She graduated with a diploma in eurythmy (a 4 year training in artistic movement founded on ideas of Rudolf Steiner) in 1980 from the New York Spring Valley Eurythmy School, and received a diploma in curative eurythmy from Peredur Centre in East Grinstead, England in 1996.
She has lived and worked many years in Camphill communities (for individuals with learning difficulties/special needs) in Germany, Wales, and England. She was accepted as a Professional Member of the International Association for Voice Movement Therapy in May 2010.
For the last 17 years and currently she is living and working in and outside Camphill Milton Keynes Community in Buckinghamshire, England with music, singing, eurythmy and movement.
Melanie Harrold, VMTR
Melanie has been a professional singer/songwriter, recording artist, Band member, and touring musician for twenty years. For the last ten years she has been teaching singing while being engaged in an extensive, experiential research into the connections between vocal expression, movement and psychotherapeutic process.
She trained in Voice Movement Therapy in 1993 and assisted on subsequent trainings. As well as practising as a certificated Body Psychotherapist she now teaches singing to large groups, works with individuals from home and leads therapeutically based voice workshops around the country. She teaches voice and movement with The National Youth Theatre and The Circus Space and is currently running a twice-weekly singing class at The Hornimans Museum in London. She has been a guest teacher on both the American VMT trainings and the VMT training in South Africa on which she is the current senior supervisor.
Gina Holloway Mulder, BADA (hons), PGDA, MAP, VMTR
Gina has been passionate about self expression since the age of 8 when she began studying speech and drama and completing the Trinity College of London's grade examinations. She went on to study Dramatic Art majoring in choreography and creative movement at WITS University in Johannesburg. Gina moved into a career as a professional choreographer and teacher teaching creative movement, choreographic techniques, character development, story writing, film studies, drama and improvisation at the Johannesburg Dance Foundation, The Dance Factory, Boston Media House and Crossroads Remedial School. In 1999 Gina entered the corporate training industry developing and facilitating courses in Effective Communication while also working in the television and film industries in various capacities.
Gina studied on the 2005-2006 VMT Training in Martha's Vineyard, qualifying as a professional practitioner in 2008. She is based in Johannesburg and offers individual and group Voice Movement Therapy sessions and corporate and private voice, movement, breathing and creativity training through her company Voice 360. As an artist, Gina works in the mediums of choreography, performance art and digital video, through which she often explores the relationship between voice, movement and the psyche and the power of emotional and personal storytelling.
Visit www.voice360.co.za for more information.
Christine Isherwood, VMTR, BA (Hons), Dip Assert Training, Singer, Songwriter
is a singer and writer who has performed in political musicals, toured the UK and Europe with theatre groups and bands, and recorded as a pop singer. She studied with Paul Newham before being invited to apprentice to him and subsequently teach with him on the Voice Movement Therapy training in London. She has co-taught 4 Foundation Trainings in Voice Movement Therapy with Anne Brownell, on Martha's Vineyard, MA, USA.
Christine supervises practitioners and continues to teach groups internationally. Prior to her VMT training, she attained a B.A in Cultural Studies from the University of East London, then went on to qualify as an Assertiveness Training teacher, upon completion of which she undertook a two year training in Humanistic and Transpersonal Psychotherapy. She worked for ten years with homeless people in Central London, before going on to work for the UK mental health organization MIND. Her current band, Salt Doll, has a new CD "The Washed Ashore Collection" available at Topplers Records: www.topplers.net/saltdoll
Lena Måndotter, VMTR
Lena Måndotter is a Swedish singer, song-therapist, writer and film-maker. She trained in Voice Movement Therapy in 1996 with Paul Newham and got her VMT-diploma from the Royal Society of Arts in London. Her Bachelor of Arts is in Comparative Literature with a focus on Jungian Psychology as an instrument for analyzing poems, songs, tales and myths. Lena has also studied analytical psychology at the CG Jung Institute and at ISAP - International School of Analytical Psychology in Zurich, Switzerland.
Lena has worked as an artist/singer since the beginning of 1990 and has for many years given song therapy workshops at The Royal Academy of Music in Stockholm, The CG Jung Foundation and its affiliates, Malmö University and many other schools, organizations and companies. She has a private practice for individual sessions.
Lena has also made a film about song and psyche which is called "Letters to a Young Singer" and this film has received a very warm response and is now available on DVD from the website www.lenamandotter.com where there are also great reviews by, for example, Jungian analyst Marion Woodman. In connection with the film-shows Lena gives seminars, nationally and internationally.
Film-clips LETTERS TO A YOUNG SINGER at Youtube:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=WWczz1Oq0MY
www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_LifinDimM
"http://www.youtube.com/user/LenaMandotter#p/u/3/Rte5m5CqL10
Lena's cds are released at Rootsy/Warners and are available at most known internet-sites like Itunes, Amazon and many other sites. The last cds are called: "The Way to the Rose", "Songs from The River" and "Songs of Leonard Cohen".
For more information about Lena Måndotter's song therapy work:
Hennie Pienaar, MTh, ACPT, REBT Supervisor, VMTR
Hennie is a Clinical Psychotherapist in private practice since 1993. He works with individuals and groups in Government, with corporations and in the private sector. He is a licensed minister and motivational speaker. He received his supervisory certificate from the Albert Ellis Institute for Rational Emotive and Behavioral Therapy, where he did post-graduate work, and trained in Voice Movement Therapy in 2004 with Anne Brownell and Christine Isherwood.
Hennie has worked as a psychotherapist at a treatment center for people with addictions, runs therapeutic groups at a private neuro-clinic and is the founder of Integrated Living, an organization presenting VMT to groups all over South Africa. He is also the founder and director of Flexible Living which organizes workshops, seminars and conferences for speakers in the fields of psychology, psychotherapy and theology in South Africa. He is the founder of VMT South Africa, was assistant teacher on the first VMT training there in 2010, and is resident supervisor for the current students entering the Qualifying Period.
Eve Pollak Maisonpierre, MA, VMTR
Eve's business, MOVINGVOICE, is the culmination of her dreams as a student, teacher and healer. Based on her personal journey, Eve draws from a set of tools and principles to explore and expand a person’s range of expression and experience of Self, through body, breath, movement and voice. Programs include workshops for groups, voice lessons, coaching, and individual sessions in Voice Movement Therapy.
Eve's journey with voice began with classical singing. She received her Masters degree in Vocal Performance from the New England Conservatory of Music, and went on to perform oratorio music professionally. In her thirties, Eve developed full-body chronic pain problems which eventually adversely impacted her voice. During this period, she met and trained with Paul Newham and Anne Brownell, graduating from the American training in Voice Movement Therapy in 1999. Through Voice Movement Therapy, and continued training in Hakomi body-centered psychotherapy and Matrix Group Leadership, Eve reclaimed and reconnected with her "voice behind the voice." She found the part of her Self that lay mute and frozen deep within her and brought it profoundly forward into her work.
In her singing, Eve continues her inward journey and pursues fun and freedom through improvisation, Celtic and folk music.
Lisa T. Perry, MEd, LPC, NCC, VMTR
Lisa T. Perry is a Licensed Professional Counselor who has been practicing psychotherapy since 1992; she recently completed the experiential year of the Foundation Training in Voice Movement Therapy. She also studied with the National Improvisational Theatre in NYC in the 1980’s.
Lisa is an artist-practitioner who sings and writes songs from her own experience. She currently sings in her band What It Is" and has performed a variety of styles in various contexts including: rock, folk, jazz, salsa, classical, chant and prayer from the Hebrew tradition and Children’s Musical Theatre.
Veronica Phillips, VMTR, Dip. Counselling, MBACP
Veronica is passionate about the capacity of the expressive voice to unfold wholeness of being. Compassion and delight increase as people develop the power of their voice and experience its many qualities for the first time. Through sounding and song the heart-soul-body being find deeper truth and wholeness.
Veronica's work with voice is called VIBRANT VOICE. Voice Movement Therapy work for her is particularly concerned with the exploration of emotional and psychological difficulties and trauma. She is a trained psychotherapist and qualified integrative, psychotherapeutic counsellor. She is an accredited member of BACP. Veronica has worked in this field for 13 years.
She is passionate about the expressive voice and its connection with the deepening, becoming self and its many aspects, and the inter-relationship with each other through sounding and song.
She is currently training in Family Constellation work and Celtic Shamanism and exploring the connections these have with VMT. Increasingly Veronica is using her voice in Shamanic healing work. She sings with two different choirs and arranges and composes songs. She runs VIBRANT VOICES, a group for reluctant and shy singers. Veronica is based in London.
Christine-Anne Plâtel
Chris is a Life and Relationship Coach and a Mender of Broken Hearts. Since 1985 she has trained in several Wellness Practices including Clinical Hypnotherapy, NLP, and Energy Psychology. Chris uses innovative methods like Voice Movement Therapy and Emotional Freedom Technique to guide her clients in cutting away their non-authentic selves, so that who they REALLY are can emerge freely, and shine! She is particularly interested in utilizing VMT to help hearts heal from childhood and adulthood betrayals.
Even though she grew up in a musical family, and has been personally and professionally surrounded by internationally-acclaimed singers throughout her life, Chris was always too shy to sing herself. However she loved making art, designing clothes, and writing poems and prose. A few years ago Chris spontaneously wrote a song, and the songwriting bug bit her hard! Wanting to learn more she took several NSAI (Nashville Songwriters Association International) songwriting workshops with great teachers like Deanna Walker, Chuck Cannon, Steve Seskin, Jai Josefs, and Jason Blume. Jason has achieved the distinction of having his songs on Billboard’s Pop, R&B, and Country charts - all at the same time.
While deeply passionate about songwriting, Chris realized that she also needed to sing. In the joyful discovery and greater unfolding of her authentic self while training with Anne Brownell, Christine Isherwood, and Eva Campbell-Haidl, Chris found in VMT a collective form of creative expression that suits her spirit and her personality perfectly! She is thrilled to share VMT with you to Nurture and Support YOUR Authentic Voice.
Chris offers VMT, Life and Relationship Coaching, and Energy Psychology for Individuals, Couples, Groups, and Teams worldwide. She also does Voice Movement Therapy at a Psychiatric and Substance Abuse Rehabilitation Hospital in Jacksonville, Florida. In addition, Chris is an NSAI Regional Workshop Coordinator.
Please visit her website www.consciousconnections.com
Jenni Roditi, GGSM, VMTR
Jenni Roditi – was the first practitioner to qualify in Voice Movement Therapy in 1993. She has been seeing clients for nearly 20 years. As well as her private practice Jenni runs workshops around the UK with her colleague Bernadette O’Brien under the title Integral Voice.
Integral Voice work is rooted in psycho-spiritual practice and draws on pioneering work in the field of experimental voice. It is concerned both with the exploration of voice as a means of moving towards healing and transformation and the implications of this for performance and creative endeavour. Working primarily with non-verbal sound, the work seeks to uncover the core voice, that which reflects ourselves at our true, unimpeded level of being, free of criticism, judgement, fear and shame. As a result free and unselfconscious vocal embodiment can release deeply held limiting patterns and create a unique vocal world for the singer. Recently Jenni has been integrating the ‘power of awareness’ work of Richard Moss into her voice sessions, drawing on his profound and accessible compass system called ‘The Mandala of Being’.
Jenni is also a composer and performer. She counts two non-classical operas and choral music amongst her output. She performs with the Roditi Trio as a singer and pianist where her music is developed with other musicians through improvisation. A choral piece of hers called ‘Life’ was recently performed by the acclaimed Crouch End Festival Chorus. Jenni has also studied with Indian classical singers, Flamenco singers and Balinese Temple singers as well as the extended vocal technique specialist Linda Hirst at Dartington summer school of music in August 2011.
To find out more about Jenni's work, please visit:
www.scoreexchange.com/profiles/jenni-roditi
Daryl Vineberg, BA, VMTR
Since leaving a full-time career in engineering, Daryl has devoted himself to pursuing his heart's desire, diving headfirst into the highly expressive worlds of Georgian polyphonic folk music, contact improv dance, improvisational theatre and Voice Movement Therapy (VMT). He currently sings with the Georgian ensemble Machari in Toronto.
Daryl took the Foundation Training in VMT in 2008, and is now a registered practitioner. He is also in the third year of a four-year training program in Psychotherapy, Bioenergetics and Integral Healing at the Integral Healing Centre of Toronto (Canada).
He currently works part-time seeing his VMT clients and practice clients for the Integral Healing training, and part-time doing environment-related engineering work on a contract basis.
For more information about Daryl's work please visit:
Trish Watts, VMTR
Trish is a singer, songwriter, and educator with extensive experience as a performing artist, animator and creative expression facilitator in Australia and overseas.
She is a registered Voice Movement Therapy practitioner with the IAVMT and studied with the Norma Canner Foundation Training, Martha's Vineyard, USA, and an accredited Singing Teacher with a Diploma of Music Education from the NSW Conservatorium, Sydney.
As Co-Founder for InterPlay Australia - a community arts practice - she travels regularly to offer workshops, retreats and performances in a cappella world music, voice, creativity, spirituality and body wisdom. She has published over 9 collections of original music and is the Musical Director for the womens's Sydney Threshold Choir. Her passion is to accompany the birth of freedom in all its forms!
Visit www.vmtoceania.com to find out about VMT in Australia.
For more information on InterPlay Australia please visit www.interplayaus.com.au.
Provisional Members
Sophie Martin
Sophie Martin is an Actor, Singer and Voice Artist and began her VMT training in Martha’s Vineyard in 2008.
Currently based in Sydney, she has taught voice and movement at the University of Southern Queensland Theatre Department, as well as running numerous workshops all over Australia. Her work centres on discovering emotional connections and resonance as well as creating flexibility and colour within the voice.
Sophie holds individual and group sessions at the Radiant Centre in Neutral Bay and the Music Practice in Surry Hills, and is also a vocal coach for professional actors and singers, and teaches at the Bondi Pavilion Community Cultural Centre.
For more information about Sophie or her work please visit www.voicematters.com.au
Visit www.vmtoceania.com to find out about VMT in Australia.